The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-10

l any w Gil. VIII Tell
you The fact is, sir, we had to xiii man
here TO start graveyard"
Crawfordville Democrat: Mr.. Scheddy,
who now lives in Alabama, told us an inter
esting tale last Monday on himself In
| April, 1919, he attended picnic near Pow
elton, and went home with his girl, and on
that night he popped the question and she
accepted. It was April 10 of that noted
| year when heavy snow fell at that time
| Mr.. Scheddy said that he had on a suit of
| fine linen" and the next morning found
| him fourteen miles from home with August
| clothes on and the ground covered with
snow. He shivered around the girl and old
man and limited for the loan of some wrap
| ping, but they did not offer him. a single
| thing. He started out madly and drove
home and never returned again to see his
betrothed He says it was "a cold parting"
| FLORIDA.
| Absalon Albury brought to Key West
last week 100 dozen pineapples aud sold
them at 81 dozen.
Mr. Wade has the artesian we'll at Dun
! geness down about 240 feet, and going
slowly, but quite surely.
Burt G. Smith has sold his steam yacht
| Lily to NJ J. Towne, who will use it in run
| ming between Kissimmee and Floradelphia.
The municipal government granted the
| Key West Gas Light Company an electric
| franchise at their meeting on Wednesday
| night
a Manatee merchant has got through
| rates on -four from ST. Louis by Mississippi
river and Morgan line at 96c per barrel,
against 81 II by rail.
r. j.. Skipper, druggist of Gainesville,
| has decided to move. He will take his stock
| to New Smyrna, Volusia county, where he
| viii conduct drug store.
4 Il e Al 4.
| clearing five additional acres for his rapidly
| increasing business. He now has about 49,
| 900 trees in nursery form.
Mr.. Higgins, agent of the Belair grove,
| is reported as saying that in boring an ar
tesian well in the grove strong indications of
| oil were found at the depth of 100 feet.
The railroad meeting last week evinced
| strong probability that the Orange Belt
| railway will 90 to Brooksville, and the
people are also expecting the S. s., o and
| g. railroad.
| Henderson has been sold to the Tampa Com
mercial Company, and will in the future be
employed on the route between New Orleans
| and Tampa.
DIR. NJ. L. Moore, whose absence from
| Gainesville hos created excitement, returned
| Saturday after an absence of several weeks.
| 1t will be remembered that he was charged
with malpractice.
By mutual agreement, the merchants of
| Lake City now close their places of business
| at SHUTDOWN Saturday evenings excepted,
| thus allowing both themselves and their
clerks more time for necessary recreation.
Circuit Court for fernando county is now
in session at Brooksville, Judge Michel, of
| Tampa, presiding OF the legal fraternity
there is fair attendance. It is rumored
that court will continue throughout this
week.
| At Kissimmee s. P. Lupfer, of Sunny
Side, on the East Tohopekaliga lake, had
last week a radish raised by him on re-
claimed land, which weighs "a 1-2 pounds,
measures AZ inches in circumference, and %
inches in length.
The life, hustle and activity at the Okee-
chobee ship yards at Kissimmee reminds one
of the palmy days of the Okeechobee Drain
age Company. The sound of the hammer,
saw and plane is again heard, and the build
ing of the new boat is being pushed with all
possible speed.
At Gainesville Sunday William Dood, of
| Gainesville, and j. S. Beekman, of Crescent
City were ordained deacons and Rev. G. E.
McDougall, of Milton, was ordained priest
by Bishop Weed Rev. c. B. Wilmer
preached the sermon.
Rev w. M. Davis, of Lake City, put up
| four boxes of oranges at the Hon. George
r. Fairbanks grove by his patent preserv-
ing process, on Jan. l last, and Mr.. Fair
banks writes that they were taken out May
l, and that be found 80 per cent. in good,
sound condition.
Circuit Court convenes at Lake City next
Monday, and Judge Vann will probably
| preside, as no successor has yet been APP
| pointed. The criminal docket is unusually
light, about all the serious cases being old
ones, carried over from term to term of the
court without action.
AT Sanford Arthur Schleman has pub
lished a challenge to George Davies to swim
q match for S25 side. The challenge will
lenges any one in Sanford to swim a match
for $50, distance 100 yards; time and
place to be hereafter arranged.
A white man named f. Mallely went to
work at Baird's mill, near Gainesville, on
| Thursday Most of the workmen are
colored men, and some of them took offense
at his work, and Friday noon, in a little
| difficulty, one colored man named Randall
chased him and struck him with a club,
breaking the forefinger of his right hand
and otherwise bruising his hand.
A merchant of Gainesville found hole
| while accommodating in one of his vest peck
cts yesterday. Further investigation dis
closed the following articles, useful and
otherwise, that had from time to time drop
| pea UnrOugn Jne uOle lHUO Une interior re-
1 gions of tho vest: Twenty-Five shot, three
sticks of chewing gum, seven fish hooks,
soc. in money, a watch key, note for SIS
and a corkscrew. The man wonders how
the corkscrew and chewing gum got there,
but the remainder of the property he can
account for.
Capt. Rose, of Kissimmee, seems to have
implicit faith in the sugar business in Flori-
da. He has started a 600 acre sugar farm
near Kssimmee. He has put $55, 900 worth
of machinery for grinding the cane and SUI
gar making and intends enlarging his acre
age TO 200 acres. The lands selected for the
purpose are some that We're drained by the
Okeechobee Drainage Company. Tho Cap
tain says that he now has sugar cane waist
high, where he formerly ran steamboat,
and that where his residence now stands
was formerly the finest fishing grounds.
Shipments of strawberries from Mandarin
continue to be very heavy, and good prices
are still obtained. On Wednesday and
Thursday the shipments were unusually
large. Messrs. Bury 81 Anderson shipped
on Wednesday forty-two and on Thursday
thirty eight refrigerators, each containing
% cubic feet, and filed with Strawberries
for New York via steamer Manatee and the
Ocean Steamship Company. The loss Of
their orange crop of the year before last has
taupht the peoplo in the vicinity of Man